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Maer

Sunday

My dear Charles

Thank God for the good news your letter brings— I
send the phaeton for Mrs Bennett who is with Mrs Stone at Newcastle, and I am therefore
half afraid she may not be able to set out tonight— the phaeton will wait and
bring her to the train if she can—

My poor dear Emma what sad news to meet her after her labour. I continue to hope
however— my father still takes food often, and his pulse varies only between
80 and 90, and does not seem to me very weak— but his voice is very
indistinct and his wandering now incessant. He asked for Charles just now, and said it
was not Charles Langton How could such words as your's dear Charles pain me? oh
if such a man could be still spared us!

Mr Garner yesterday seemed to think him quite as well as he
expected. He has not yet been today.

I do hope Catharine will be able to go.

I am very glad it is a little girl, though I dont know now whether Emma
cares—

According to CD's Account Book (Down House MS) £2 7s.
were paid on 25 September to cover ‘Fly for Mrs Bennett &
travelling expenses’. Further entries indicate that Mrs Bennett was Mary
Eleanor's wet-nurse.

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Robert Garner, physician in Stoke-upon-Trent and surgeon to the North Staffordshire
Infirmary.